Accountant

Role: Accountant
Location: Home-based with office based working once or twice every fortnight
Salary: £32 - £35k Pro rata
Job Type: Part-time (Potential for Full-time while business expands)
Available: Immediately
About us:
Dynamic Messaging is an innovative tech business, specialising in the fast-growing Voice and SMS market, with clients all around the world. Their successful team is expanding, and they are looking for a hard-working, organized and experienced Accountant to join the growing team.
About you:
This role requires a highly organized person with years of accounting experience. We are looking for someone who is proactive and self-motivated, with a passion for managing small business finances. The candidate should be familiar with all aspects of small business accounting and can manage day-to-day financial operations efficiently. Successful candidates will have a strong work ethic and enjoy a wide range of accounting responsibilities. The ideal candidate will have experience using SAGE50/SAGE200/SAGE Intacct for accounting.
About the role:
As a result of business growth and development, we are now looking for an Accountant to join our business on a permanent basis. With the support of the CEO, the successful Accounts candidate will have all-around responsibilities across accounts payable, receivable, reconciliation, credit control and analysis. This will involve distributing invoices, reconciling bank accounts, preparing income return, communicating with clients and performing aged debtor reviews.
Accountant responsibilities to include:
* Maintain accurate financial records including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger entries, and bank reconciliations.
* Distribute invoices, allocate customer receipts and recover debt on weekly basis
* Collect purchase invoices from the shared accounts email inbox and request authorisation from the CEO
* Ensuring invoices are authorised, downloaded, coded and recorded in accounting software
* Manage petty cash and company expenses
* Prepare tax returns and other required government filings
* Prepare weekly supplier payment file and submit to CEO for authorisation
* Ensure remittances are sent to suppliers to support payments made
* Weekly investigations of any issues/discrepancies with supplier invoices
* Ensure invoices are paid within payment terms and VAT is recorded correctly
* Reconciling bank accounts on a weekly and monthly basis against bank statements
* Provide support for month-end accounting, such as aged debtor and aged creditor review
* Keeping up to date with developments across the business by establishing good working relationships and collaborating with colleagues from other departments
* To communicate with the CEO any potential concerns and mitigating actions
Desirable skills and experience:
* AAT qualified or Part Qualified or Qualified by Experience
* 10+ years experience in accounting in a small business.
* Solid understanding of accounting principles and bookkeeping
* Confident in working independently
* Intermediate level in Excel
* Ability to prioritise a busy workload and to remain calm under pressure
* Business fluency in written and verbal English
* Good telephone manner
* Diligence and attention to detail while working in a fast-paced environment
* Performance-driven and results orientated
* Confident and proactive in communicating with people at all levels and working as part of the team
* Previous experience in SAGE is essential.
If you are interested in this role and would like to hear more, please contact Rachael Newsham for more information - thank you for considering Dynamic Messaging as your next employer and we look forward to hearing from you soon